Description
| Product ID: | 9781035006779 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Bad Blood |
| Subtitle: | Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup: The Story of Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos Scandal |
| Authors: | Author: John Carreyrou |
| Page Count: | 400 |
| Subjects: | True crime, True crime, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Social and ethical issues, Corporate crime / white-collar crime, Manufacturing industries, Biotechnology, Reportage & collected journalism, Corruption in society, Corporate crime, Biotechnology industries, Biotechnology, California |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The shocking true story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a gripping cautionary tale set amid the bold promises and gold-rush frenzy of Silicon Valley. <p><b>'I couldn’t put down this thriller . . . a book so compelling that I couldn't turn away' – Bill Gates<br><br>'A story so incredible you'd think it was fiction' – James Patterson<br><br>Winner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.</b><br><br><b>The shocking true story of the breathtaking rise and collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes, written by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end.</b><br><br>Seen as the female Steve Jobs, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup ‘unicorn’ promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed by wealthy investors, Theranos sold shares that valued the company at more than $9 billion.<br><br>There was just one problem: the technology didn’t work . . .<br><br>Despite threats of legal action, brave whistleblowers started to talk. They revealed a culture of intimidation and secrecy, technology that repeatedly failed, results sent to real patients that were incorrect but upon which life-changing medical decisions were being made, with devastating consequences.<br><br><b>The riveting story behind <i>The Dropout</i>, in<i> Bad Blood</i>, John Carreyrou investigates the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and scandal set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.</b><br><br><b>'A tale of corporate fraud and legal browbeating that reads like a crime thriller' –</b><b> <i>TIME</i>, The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-03-30 |
